Thanks to the down Turn Many Skiing Businesses Are Cutting down Their Amount of Luxury Catered Ski Chalets
Because of the credit crunch bookings for skiing holidays Europe fell last skiing season.
Notwithstanding acceptable pre season bookings coupled with fantastic skiing conditions.
These reductions in snowboarders follows on from 6 winters of development in the snowboarding industry, and the number of vacationers contracted from 1.1 million two seasons ago to 900000 last season.
This is partly due to skiers giving their annual skiing holiday a miss, while other snowboarders who’d normally take two snowboarding breaks, only had one.
Sales for the independent travel sector fell by 15% with some low priced airlines cutting the no. of flights to several cities.
However tour operators saw the numbers decreasing by a similar 15%.
Even so, the top tour operators market share remained at 70% and France carried on as the favourite skiing destination with about 37% of holidays.
Because of this many operators lowered the total number of catered chalets they rent this year.
The catered chalet markets will witness a reduction in holiday makers because a luxury catered chalet costs more for the tour operator with regards to chalet chefs and rental if it is unsold.
It remains unlikely that we shall see the type of special offers which were up for grabs last year.
Costs are probably going to to increase, prices are unlikely to go up substantially.
